Finally getting around to my summary/follow-up post! Foundations does seem like a while ago and I feel like I’ve grown as a coach so much since! And still I’m so excited to continue evolving and growing as a coach. I am starting to experience how this type of coaching is profound and life-changing! When I think back to the person I was prior to…

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Hi Amanda! You provide such richness with your posts and I’m so thankful you give me so many things to think about and to respond to! I like the Marie Kondo analogy! It’s so true. I’ve noticed messiness and chaos in my own life since the last intensive and I like thinking of it in this way! I wonder what it’s like for you sitting with people in…

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Suez! I love your vision. Your post screams inclusivity and wholistic healing wrapped in Love and support. I think you hit on something important and unique, and that is the integration / ongoing support for clients. This is such an important piece to create lasting change and you nailed it. As you continue to engage clients in accountability and…

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Finally getting around to Foundations 4 discussion with you, Amanda! I love reading your posts because they are so well thought out and authentic! Thank you for sharing yourself so fully with us!

So many things stood out to me, but the one I want to comment on the most is the concept that nature is everywhere and that you can help people (young…

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I see myself initially drawing upon my network, my former career experience, and all the work I’ve done through EBI as I begin my coaching practice. Having worked in the environmental and oil and gas fields for 20+ years, I personally experienced the challenges of working in male dominated industries as a female. So, when I think about coaching o…

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Sometimes I jump from threshold experience to threshold experience without fully incorporating them or integrating my learnings. I know this part of foundations is about the threshold and not incorporation, but I wanted to acknowledge this because it’s something I’m learning about myself through this program. I’m also seeing how much I enjoy the t…

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I like your association of the threshold with embodiment. Something occurred to me while reading your post about the gift that we can give to clients. If a client is typically shy about roaring like a lion, but feels called to do so, and can courageously step into that with the guides help, and obtain the release needed to be fully in her body,…

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I’m struck by the observations you had about the obvious effects the nature connection practices had on each of us as we interacted with each other. Hearing this further drives the importance of these practices in my daily life as a tool to help me be the coach I want to be. Thank you for the reminder and the clarity that our clients will benefit…

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Hi Amanda! Better late than never!? 🙂 I love the personal nature of your posts. Thank you for sharing your three threshold experiences with us and capturing them so fully! I imagine you might answer your own question that you posed at the end of your post in a different way now that we’ve been through 2 intensives? I appreciate the question…

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Oh, the threshold! The moment where we get to experiment with the experience of the deeper need, with the way we need to be. As I reflect on these moments as a coaching client and in my life, I recognize the self-realization and expansion that comes from these experiences. I recall one session during our Foundations intensive where I was working…

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Reflecting on the material in this section along with everyone’s posts, I’m drawn to the concept of the collective psyche, the ecological unconscious, and the personal work that I’m doing to heal myself, thus healing the world. I’ve been playing with a looking glass metaphor. I’m not sure I have the words to adequately describe what is present f…

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